Can-opener



(No Model.)

J. O. MYERS. CAN OPENER.

No. 426,207, Patented Apr. 22. 1890.

WI NESS \J\/ I\I UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

JONATHAN C. MYERS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CAN-OPENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,207, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed July 15, 1889.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN 0. Discuss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Can-Opener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an implement for opening cans, and has for its object to combine simplicity, economy, and efliciency; and the invention consists in the peculiar c011- struction of the device, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure l is a side elevation of my new can-opener. Fig. 2 is a similar view having a portion of the head broken away to show the corrugations at the side of the blade. Fig. 3 is an edge view.

A represents the handle of my new canopening implement, and I3 is the cutting-blade. The bladeis cut from steel, having curved and sharpened edges. The handle is made ofcast metal, the blade being held in a chill, and the metal of the handle is cast upon it, thus firmly securing them together. The head of the handle is made half-round on the end having the blade attached, with a protruding lip or flange a a at each side of the blade and a little dis- Serial No. 317,598. (No model.)

tance from it, and the curved surface of the head inside of said flange is corrugated or roughened, as shown at a Fig. 2.

The working of this tool or implement is as follow. The blade is inserted in the head of a can with the beveled side toward the rim or outside of the can and with thelip or flange over the rim or edge of the, can, and the roughened head resting on the top of the rim or edge. Now by working the handle up and down, using the roughened head as a fulcrum, the tool will be very easily made to traverse around the edge of the can, being guided by the bevel of the blade and the overhanging lip, smoothly and evenly cutting and removing the head from the can.

Having described my invention, 1 claim- As a new article of manufacture, the hereindescribed can-opener, consisting of handle A, having a halfrounded head provided with flanges a a, and roughened surfaces within said flanges on both sides of the cutting-blade, substantially as described.

JONATHAN C. MYERS. Witnesses:

GEO. W. Trenrrrs, VERNON 1L BURKE. 

